Who was that girl just now, Victor couldn't help but be curious of the girl he just sparred with. After walking away, he heard a few students talking about the F-rank student. Victor still didn't know who the new F-rank was, and neither did he care. He did however, want to find out who the bold girl he just met was.
....
Later that Afternoon...
"97, 98, 99, and 100!"
Aria opened her system after finishing the last task for her daily quest.
[ Daily Quest Complete: 10 Exp awarded ]
[ Congratulations, you have leveled up! Level: 0->1 ]
[ 1 stat point has been added to Strength, and 1 stat point has been added to Vitality/Durability. ]
Aria opened up her current stats.
[ Stats ]
- Strength: 13
- Speed/Agility: 8
- Endurance: 7
- Vitality/Durability: 14
- Resonance: 10
( 2 available stat points remaining)
Aria added one stat point into strength, matching it with her Vitality/Durability. Then she added the last stat into her Speed/Agility.
[ Stats *Updated* ]
- Strength: 14
- Speed/Agility: 9
- Endurance: 7
- Vitality/Durability: 14
- Resonance: 10
"That looks good for now," Aria closed the system and decided to call her brother for a quick chat.
She dialed his number, and he picked up shortly after.
"Hi Aria, how's it going at the new school so far?" Ben inquired.
"Well it's definitely interesting, I like my classes and the material we are learning but..." she hesitated to reveal the bullying she had encountered in the last 2 days.
"But...?" Ben prompted an answer.
Sparing Ben the details, she decided on the nice version. "But I haven't made any friends quite yet."
"Well I'm sure you will find one eventually," Ben replied enthusiastically. "Also I was able to transfer locations at work to the office closer to your new school. I plan to look for an apartment nearby as well."
Tears started streaming down Aria's cheek, she really missed her brother. "I can't wait," she told him.
.....
The next day...
"Well look at that, she's an F-rank flicker." A boy snickered as he and a few friends were making fun of Aria's light manipulation skill. Aria glared at the group of boys while she tried to maintain her light sphere in her hands.
She was currently in an extracurricular class specifically for elemental awakeners. It was located in a training room that was made of durable steel, and was quite large to fit a whole class.There were no desks or anything as this was a time to practice on manifesting their abilities and manipulating them for learning control. The instructor of this class was another professor Aria had not yet seen. This professor went by the name of Marvin Maelstrom. He was quite the quirky personality as well.
Professor Marvin Maelstrom was on the shorter side with hair that had the same colour of a sunflower. His hair was quite long, and was kept in a low ponytail. He wore golden wire framed glasses that really matched his bright sunny vibe.
Professor Maelstrom was very supportive of Aria and was particularly interested in her light elemental abilities.
"Very intriguing, can you increase the size of the sphere Aria?"
"I can give it a try," Aria focused on her hands and the orb if light in her hands pulsed before expanding to the size of a basketball. The light it gave off now was almost blinding and all the other students stopped to look.
"She could be useful as a lamp," a student smirked at their witty remark. Others laughed at the joke.
Professor Maelstrom was so engrossed in Aria's ability that he didn't even notice the chatter coming from the students around them.
"How fascinating," the professor said admiring the brilliant sphere. "If I am not mistaken, the heat it is giving off has increased proportional to the size increase. I speculate that your ability could be pure energy in its simplest form."
Aria had not thought about her ability this way. She started to come up with ideas on how to use her ability more effectively, and after class she went to one of the private training rooms.
Aria wanted to try one of those ideas right away. She formed a sphere of light about the size of a basketball again. This time she wanted to make it even bigger. She succeeded as she increased the size of the ball to about one meter in diameter. She could feel the heat coming off it was a lot stonger.
Once she had the large sphere of light before her, she tried to condense it into the smallest she could. A drop of sweat formed on her brow as she focused. It was quite difficult as the energy wanted to escape. After a minute of focusing she was able to condense the sphere back to the size of a volleyball this time, but the heat and radiance of it remained the same.
Aria once again tried to manipulate the shape of the sphere, making it longer and into a spear like object. Once finished she held a one and a half meter pole of light with the end narrowing into a point.
[ Congrats - New Skill Created ]
[ Star piercer (Active) - by condensing light and energy into a spear like form, a powerful weapon has been created. Damage dealt is based on the Strength stat and Resonance stat multiplied by each other. ]
Aria's eyes went wide, "Now this is what I call a skill," she said with a smile forming on her lips.